Data Engineer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 58 101
Rank change year-on-year -29 +43 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 44 42 51
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.78% 3.73% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 4.00% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 35 36 39
10th Percentile £47,000 £46,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £52,403 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +17.65% -21.54%
75th Percentile £83,500 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £77,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £66,250 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.42% +17.65% -23.96%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,309 1,051 2,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.26% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,487 623 2,020
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,550 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,284 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.90%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -28 40 £75,000 +25.00% 13
Huddersfield -11 2 - - 2
Wakefield - 1 £42,500 -
Halifax - 1 £55,000 -
Data Engineer
Yorkshire

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 16 March 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (70.45%) SQL
2 28 (63.64%) Data Pipeline
2 28 (63.64%) Python
3 27 (61.36%) Data Engineering
4 24 (54.55%) Analytics
5 23 (52.27%) Databricks
6 22 (50.00%) Azure
7 16 (36.36%) AWS
8 15 (34.09%) ETL
8 15 (34.09%) Mentoring
8 15 (34.09%) PySpark
9 14 (31.82%) Data Lake
9 14 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (31.82%) Machine Learning
9 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
9 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (29.55%) Agile
10 13 (29.55%) Apache Spark
10 13 (29.55%) Data Security
11 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
11 12 (27.27%) Data Modelling
11 12 (27.27%) Migration
12 10 (22.73%) AI
13 9 (20.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (20.45%) Apache
13 9 (20.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (20.45%) Data Science
14 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (18.18%) Data Governance
14 8 (18.18%) Data Quality

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (29.55%) Apache Spark
2 9 (20.45%) Apache
3 4 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) Azure
2 16 (36.36%) AWS
3 9 (20.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (15.91%) dbt
6 6 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (13.64%) GCP
6 6 (13.64%) Power Platform
6 6 (13.64%) Serverless
7 5 (11.36%) GitHub
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (6.82%) Azure App Service
9 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (4.55%) SaaS
11 1 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Broadband
1 1 (2.27%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.82%) Data Lake
1 14 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (20.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (15.91%) Metadata
4 5 (11.36%) Power BI
4 5 (11.36%) Spark SQL
5 4 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 4 (9.09%) MySQL
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (4.55%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.55%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.55%) Star Schema
6 2 (4.55%) Tableau
7 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.27%) DataStage
7 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.27%) PowerCenter
7 1 (2.27%) Semantic Layer
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
5 3 (6.82%) Retail
5 3 (6.82%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.27%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) PySpark
2 2 (4.55%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.27%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.27%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (63.64%) Data Pipeline
2 27 (61.36%) Data Engineering
3 24 (54.55%) Analytics
4 15 (34.09%) ETL
4 15 (34.09%) Mentoring
5 14 (31.82%) Machine Learning
5 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (29.55%) Agile
6 13 (29.55%) Data Security
7 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 12 (27.27%) Data Modelling
7 12 (27.27%) Migration
8 10 (22.73%) AI
9 9 (20.45%) Data Science
10 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (18.18%) Data Governance
11 7 (15.91%) Decision-Making
11 7 (15.91%) DevOps
12 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (70.45%) SQL
2 28 (63.64%) Python
3 5 (11.36%) T-SQL
4 4 (9.09%) Java
4 4 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (52.27%) Databricks
2 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.09%) Oracle
3 4 (9.09%) Palantir
4 2 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) BT
5 1 (2.27%) Informatica
5 1 (2.27%) Nintex